Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found hardly anything worth bombing. When we appeared over Scapa Flow, we found it deserted. The entire British Fleet had fled from the harbor to west English ports or more distant points.* We had to be content with an attack on the Iron Duke in order not to return home without having carried out any actions...
Along the Labrador Coast from Battle Harbor to Nain, tiny settlements lie huddled at the foot of towering, rocky cliffs. Several weatherbeaten shacks, a pier or two, boats and nets hung up to dry, comprise the weary picture. Almost no motion is apparent. Everywhere are rocks and mosquitoes and marshes extending as far as the eye can see. And smothering the scene like a heavy blanket is the smell of drying and decaying fish. For it is summer and the people who cling precariously to the shoreline are codfishing for existence...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
Instruments for detection of submarines have been made much more accurate, he said, and the Scapa Flow attack probably happened because there were so many ships in the harbor that it was extremely difficult to detect one more. The most successful invention for finding submarines has been an "echo" arrangement, which determines distance and direction...
...convenient process of regeneration in lower animals works, no one knows. One theory is that their bodies contain undifferentiated, "totipotent" cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance. Professor James Walter Wilson of Brown University hazarded the guess that higher animals, perhaps even man, may harbor these cells, but that they have become so feeble in the process of evolution that they yield to the quicker-acting, wound-healing mechanism which covers a wound site with scar tissue. If this mechanism could be halted, so as to give the totipotent cells a chance to rebuild...